Lipid imbalance in the neurological disorder, Niemann-Pick C disease.

abstract：:Although transthyretin (TTR) is expressed in pancreatic alpha (glucagon) cells in the islets of Langerhans, the function of TTR in pancreatic alpha cells remains unknown. In this study, by using TTR knockout (TTR KO) mice, we determined the novel role of TTR in glucose homeostasis. We demonstrated that TTR KO mice evi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Su Y,Jono H,Misumi Y,Senokuchi T,Guo J,Ueda M,Shinriki S,Tasaki M,Shono M,Obayashi K,Yamagata K,Araki E,Ando Y

更新日期：2012-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the involvement of oxidative stress in glutamate-evoked transglutaminase (TGase) upregulation in astrocyte cultures (14 DIV). A 24 h exposure to glutamate caused a dose-dependent depletion of glutathione intracellular content and increased the ROS production in cell cultures. Thes...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Campisi A,Caccamo D,Li Volti G,Currò M,Parisi G,Avola R,Vanella A,Ientile R

更新日期：2004-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated cDNA molecules encoding a protein with the characteristic sequence elements that are conserved between the catalytic domains of protein kinases. This protein is apparently a serine/threonine kinase and is most closely related to the amino-terminal half of the ribosomal protein S6 kinase II first chara...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Harmann B,Kilimann MW

更新日期：1990-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The C1 domains are 50 amino acid sequences present in protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes that are responsible for binding of phorbol esters and the lipid second messenger diacylglycerol (DAG). We found that bacterially expressed C1b domain of PKCdelta induces germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) when microinjected into Xeno...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Aroca P,Santos E,Kazanietz MG

更新日期：2000-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:ent-Kaurene is the key intermediate in biosynthesis of gibberellins (GAs), plant hormones. In higher plants, ent-kaurene is synthesized successively by copalyl diphosphate synthase (CPS) and ent-kaurene synthase (KS) from geranylgeranyl diphosphate (GGDP). On the other hand, fungal ent-kaurene synthases are bifunction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hayashi K,Kawaide H,Notomi M,Sakigi Y,Matsuo A,Nozaki H

更新日期：2006-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingoid long chain base phosphates (LCBPs) regulate cell proliferation, survival and motility in mammals. To learn more about LCBPs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we determined the cellular location of Lcb4p, the major enzyme catalyzing LCBP synthesis. By indirect immunofluorescence microscopy and subcellular fraction...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hait NC,Fujita K,Lester RL,Dickson RC

更新日期：2002-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon dimerization by oxidation, Hsp33 functions as a molecular chaperone in prokaryotes. Previously published structures of both the inactive and active species are of doubtful relevance to the solution conformations since the inactive (reduced) crystal structure was dimeric, while the active (oxidized) species was cr...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee YS,Ryu KS,Kim SJ,Ko HS,Sim DW,Jeon YH,Kim EH,Choi WS,Won HS

更新日期：2012-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of calcium, phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (PKc), which is thought to play an important role in cell proliferation, has been measured in the particulate and soluble fractions of cultured cells, under different proliferative conditions. Our results indicate that proliferating cells display higher PK...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Adamo S,Caporale C,Aguanno S,Lazdins J,Faggioni A,Belli L,Cortesi E,Nervi C,Gastaldi R,Molinaro M

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The surprising result that the spanning domain causes retention of proteins in the Golgi stack poses the question as to the actual mechanism. Here we present a simple model that might have general applicability. ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Nilsson T,Slusarewicz P,Hoe MH,Warren G

更新日期：1993-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Antithrombin III Hamilton is a structural variant of antithrombin III (AT-III) with normal heparin affinity but impaired serine protease inhibitory activity. The molecular defect of AT-III-Hamilton is a substitution of threonine for alanine at amino acid residue 382. Recently it has been shown that both plasma-derived...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Austin RC,Rachubinski RA,Blajchman MA

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Bleomycin-reactive iron was detected in the sera of six out of nine adults undergoing intensive chemotherapy for acute non-lymphocytic leukemia. In these individuals the corresponding transferrin saturation ranged from 96% to 113% and the serum ferritin from 775 to 9975 micrograms/l. Nontransferrin-bound iron has been...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Gordeuk VR,Brittenham GM

更新日期：1992-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A truncated human Na(+)/glucose cotransporter (C(5), residues 407-664) was expressed and purified from Escherichia coli using a GST fusion vector and glutathione affinity chromatography. The truncated transporter (C(5)) was cleaved from GST-C(5) by Factor Xa proteolysis and purified by gel filtration chromatography. U...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Panayotova-Heiermann M,Leung DW,Hirayama BA,Wright EM

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A partial cDNA clone for the potato wound-inducible metallocarboxypeptidase inhibitor (PCI) was isolated from a cDNA library constructed from mRNA of abscisic acid (ABA)-treated potato leaves. The full 5' region of the cDNA was obtained through a RACE-PCR protocol. PCI mRNA encodes a precursor polypeptide which compri...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Villanueva J,Canals F,Prat S,Ludevid D,Querol E,Avilés FX

更新日期：1998-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate peptide bond cleaved by cathepsins B and L is determined not by the amino acid contributing the carboxyl group to this bond as in the case of serine proteases but rather by the presence of a neighboring amino acid with a large hydrophobic side chain. From a study of the inhibitory potency in a series, Cb...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Kirschke H,Wikstrom P,Shaw E

更新日期：1988-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Di(1,N6-ethenoadenosine)5',5'''-P1,P4-tetraphosphate, epsilon-(Ap4A), a fluorescent analog of Ap4A has been synthesized by reaction of 2-chloroacetaldehyde with Ap4A. At neutral pH this Ap4A analog presents characteristics maxima at 265 and 274 nm, shoulders at ca 260 and 310 nm and moderate fluorescence (lambda exc 3...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Rotilán P,Ramos A,Pintor J,Torres M,Miras-Portugal MT

更新日期：1991-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the extraction and stabilization in vitro of discrete complexes of interferon and cellular receptor proteins. A homogeneous complex of Mr 230 000 was extracted at the time of peak receptor binding (30 min). Complex formation was specific for human interferon. At later times a second complex could also be e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Eid P,Mogensen KE

更新日期：1983-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulsed field gradient three-dimensional isotope-filtered 13C HMQC-NOESY experiment has been developed to characterize intermolecular contacts in a 37 kDa macromolecular ternary complex consisting of uniformly 13C labeled trp-repressor, its natural abundance co-repressor, L-tryptophan, and natural abundance operator ...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee W,Revington MJ,Arrowsmith C,Kay LE

更新日期：1994-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Antifungal activity has been associated with 2 immunochemically distinct proteins, protein R and S (Mr approximately 23 kDa; pI 9-10), which were isolated in pure form from barley grain. The proteins are homologous with thaumatin- and pathogenesis-related proteins of the PR5 family. The proteins inhibit growth of i.a....

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Hejgaard J,Jacobsen S,Svendsen I

更新日期：1991-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The two cytoskeletal proteins VASP and WASP and the protein Homer share a conserved domain, currently designated the WHI domain (WASP homology domain 1) or EVH1 domain (ENA/VASP homology domain 1), which could play an important role in various cellular events such as transport, folding of proteins, and signal transduc...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Callebaut I,Cossart P,Dehoux P

更新日期：1998-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of whole cell H2O2 metabolism in several salivarian and stercorarian trypanosomes and Leishmania species was measured. These cells metabolized H2O2 at rates between 2.3 and 48.2 nmol/10(8) cells per min depending upon the species employed. H2O2 metabolism was largely insensitive to NaN3, implying that typical...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Penketh PG,Kennedy WP,Patton CL,Sartorelli AC

更新日期：1987-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular chaperone protein Hsp78, a member of the Clp/Hsp100 family localized in the mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for maintenance of mitochondrial functions under heat stress. To characterize the biochemical mechanisms of Hsp78 function, Hsp78 was purified to homogeneity and its role in t...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Krzewska J,Langer T,Liberek K

更新日期：2001-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of cytosine-residues in the sequence CpG affects the expression of many genes and generally correlates with reduced transcription. The ribosomal genes of Xenopus laevis were among the first genes to be studied with respect to their DNA methylation, and a loss of methylation during embryonic development cor...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Labhart P

更新日期：1994-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator-1 alpha (PGC-1alpha), a highly inducible transcriptional coactivator regulating energy homeostasis, is down-regulated in hepatoma tissues. To dissect its role in hepato-tumorigenesis, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis was applied to construct pathways affected by P...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Lee HJ,Su Y,Lui WY,Chau GY,Yin PH,Lee HC,Chi CW

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominance of oxidative stress in many tumour cell environments provides a means to selectively target these cells via protein oxidation. The zinc fingers of transcription factors utilise cysteine thiols for structural zinc coordination. Redox control of DNA binding regulates transcription and therefore the over...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Giles NM,Gutowski NJ,Giles GI,Jacob C

更新日期：2003-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast Golgi ecto-ATPase Ynd1p is an unusual type III membrane protein with the longest translocated N-terminus reported. Sequential deletion analysis reveals that translocation of this 500-residue-long hydrophilic domain across the membranes requires the C-terminal transmembrane domain of Ynd1p and its flanking region...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Zhong X,Malhotra R,Guidotti G

更新日期：2005-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial RNA polymerase (RNAP) serves as a primase during replication of single-stranded plasmids and filamentous phages. Primer RNA (prRNA) synthesis from the origin regions of these replicons depends on the σ factor that normally participates in promoter recognition. However, it was proposed that σ may not be requi...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Esyunina D,Pupov D,Kulbachinskiy A

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adipose-derived plasma protein, adiponectin (APN), has various protective effects on cardiovascular diseases. In this study, we show that endogenous APN is required for full cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) induction by ischemia-reperfusion injury in the heart in vivo. In rat neonatal cardiac myocytes, APN-induced COX-2 e...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Ikeda Y,Ohashi K,Shibata R,Pimentel DR,Kihara S,Ouchi N,Walsh K

更新日期：2008-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli K12 mutant gene, asnS40, coding for asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase (AsnRS) in the temperature-sensitive strain HO202, was isolated from genomic DNA using the Polymerase Chain Reaction. DNA sequencing revealed that the mutant enzyme differs from the wild-type AsnRS by two amino acids, but only the P23...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Madern D,Anselme J,Härtlein M

更新日期：1992-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity and the fate of SV40 DNA (minichromosomes, DNA I, DNA II, DNA III) were tested in culture cells by immunofluorescence staining and blot analysis. Following microinjection of 2-4 circular SV40 molecules (minichromosomes, DNA I, DNA II) into the cytoplasm or the nuclei of monkey and rat cells, T-...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Graessmann A,Bumke-Vogt C,Buschhausen G,Bauer M,Graessmann M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human legumain was characterized following overexpression in a murine cell line as the C-terminal Ig-fusion protein. Upon acid treatment, the prolegumain autoproteolyzed distal to two aspartic acid residues to yield a highly active form. The ability of mature legumain to cleave after aspartic acid residues was confirm...

journal_title：FEBS letters

authors： Halfon S,Patel S,Vega F,Zurawski S,Zurawski G

更新日期：1998-10-30 00:00:00